Quotes by Agatha Christie

A man in love is a sorry spectacle.

When a mans necks in danger, he doesnt stop to think too much about sentiment.

Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays.

One cant do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women.

... Good gracious, Jerry, youll probably have to marry the girl.Joanna was half serious, half laughing.It was at that moment that I made a very important discovery.Damn it all, I said. I dont mind if I do. In fact - I should like it.A very funny expression came over Joannas face. She got up and said dryly, as she went toward the door, Yes, Ive known that for some time...She left me standing, glass in hand, aghast at my new discovery.

Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.

Sometimes, as a great treat, I was allowed to remove Nursies snowy ruffled cap. Without it, she somehow retreated into private life and lost her official status. Then, with elaborate care, I would tie a large blue satin ribbon round her head - with enormous difficulty and holding my breath, because tying a bow is no easy matter for a four-year-old. After which I would step back and exclaim in ecstasy: Oh Nursie, you ARE beautiful! At which she would smile and say in her gentle voice: Am I, love?

All three wore the air of superiority assumed by people who are already in a place when studying new arrivals.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didnt reveal much of what she thought and felt about things. He liked that about her. He hated people who reeled off their thoughts and feelings to you, who took it for granted that you wanted to know all their mechanism. Reserve was always more interesting.

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone. I have nephews and nieces and kind friends---but theres no one who knew me as a young girl---non one who belongs to the old days. Ive been alone for quite a long time now.

A man travels fastest who travels alone.

We do all these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, it comes later.

Everybody said, Follow your heart. I did, it got broken

Mrs. Bakers social manner was almost robotlike in its perfection. All her comments and remarks were natural, normal, everyday currency, but one had a suspicion that the whole thing was like an actor playing a part for perhaps the seven hundredth time. It was an automatic performance, completely divorced from what Mrs. Baker might really have been thinking or feeling.

The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal.

Mademoiselle, I speak as a friend. Bury your dead! ... Give up the past! Turn to the future! What is done is done. Bitterness will not undo it.Im sure that would suit dear Linnet admirably.Poirot made a gesture. I am not thinking of her at this moment! I am thinking of you. You have suffered - yes - but what you are doing now will only prolong the suffering.

I remember one teacher there -- I cant recall her name now. She was short and spare, and I remember her eager jutting chin. Quite unexpectedly one day (in the middle, I think, of an arithmetic lesson) she suddenly launched forth on a speech on life and religion. All of you, she said, every one of you -- will pass through a time when you will face despair. If you never face despair, you will never have faced, or become, a Christian, or known a Christian life. To be a Christian you must face and accept the life that Christ faced and lived; you must enjoy things as he enjoyed things; be as happy as he was at the marriage at Canaan, know the peace and happiness that it means to be in harmony with God and with Gods will. But you must also know, as he did, what it means to be alone in the Garden of Gethsemane, to feel that all your friends have forsaken you, that those you love and trust have turned away from you, and that God Himself has forsaken you. Hold on then to the belief that that is not the end. If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life. She then returned to the problems of compound interest ...

HC: You think I shall differently tomorrow? [about suicide]J: People do.HC: Yes, perhaps. If youre doing things in a mood of hot despair. But when its cold despair, its different. Ive nothing to live for, you see.~Hilary Craven; Jessop